Magogodi oaMphela Makhene

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene is a Soweto-made soul. Her essays and stories have been published in Harvard Review, Salon, and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s An Ethical Compass: Coming of Age in the 21st Century (Yale University Press, 2010). She holds graduate degrees from New York University, where she was a Reynolds Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. Follow Magogodi’s writing adventures at magogodimakhene.com.